Government Quotes

• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Job
  • Lost

• The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Duty
  • Citizens
  • Defend

• In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Government
  • Justice
  • Absence

• The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Humanity
  • Readers
  • Degeneration

• Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Government
  • Progressive

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Trying

• If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

  

  Plato
  • Government
  • Interest
  • Rule

• A government of, by and for the people is obligated to conduct the nation's business in a manner that respects dissent.

  

  James A. Leach
  • Business
  • Government
  • Conduct

• It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Important
  • Fear

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Democracy
  • Persons
  • Liberty

• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Exercise

• Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Desire
  • Creation

• Government doesn't have to come up with new killer features on its own. It has to step aside and let others come up with them.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Step
  • Others

• A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Angry
  • Spanish

• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

  

  Socrates
  • Man
  • Learned
  • Trades

• My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Wife
  • Government
  • Graduation

• In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Salvation
  • Wars
  • Human Race

• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Earth
  • Government

• But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter.

  

  George Washington
  • Republican
  • Confusion
  • Anarchy

• In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Government
  • Difficult

• A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Orators

• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Empathy

• The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Government
  • Goal
  • Creating

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